Bill > H3321

This bill mandates that starting in 2021, the City of Boston must, after each decennial federal census (a census conducted every ten years), divide its territory into wards and precincts, overriding previous laws that exempted Boston from this requirement. The Board of Election Commissioners in Boston is empowered to make these divisions, and is required to do so if the existing wards or precincts do not have roughly equal numbers of inhabitants. The bill outlines a process where the Board of Election Commissioners submits their plan for new or unchanged wards and precincts to the City Council for approval by a specific date, after which it goes to the city clerk for notification to the state secretary, with final approval following established procedures for ward and precinct divisions.